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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by Der_Einzige on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:40AM (#27059542)
Sorry man, but every bit of that book (and everything else jean baudrillard wrote) is fashionable nonsense. Hyperreality is a bankrupt useless concept and has no basis in reality. Baudrillard tries to sound profound but really just sounds like a post modernist schizo like the rest of his contemporaries
Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by barrkel on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:35AM (#27060185)
Unfortunately, you're not right. The world is moving into text. What matters is the effects words have, not their truth. Brexit and Trump are significant evidence of this, but there's a lot more. Today, online bullying is probably a bigger problem for teenagers than offline, and that's because they live more of their lives online. They are literally moving into the simulation, a place constructed out of allusion and conjunction of symbols.

Consider all the fighting over words in what the right likes to call the woke. Symbolism, not the real, is bigger than ever and getting more important every day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn

Words increasingly constitute reality, rather than being referents to some external reality.

Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by Chris2048 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:05AM (#27064304)
> Brexit and Trump are significant evidence of this

Brexit is the new heresy apparently. What if I told you the EU was the "false words"? The representation of Brexit as racist was certainly an emotive argument.